School Drama

18th - 21st May 2016, BBC Radio 4

Four-part drama with Tom Hollander and Sian Gibson

Deer Park Academy, a re-branded failing school, is working to turn itself around and inspire its students. But inspiration can be dangerous and when has-been TV star, Geoff Cathcart, is brought in to stage a production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he opens a Pandora’s box of controversy.

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The play and production are fantastic. There are so may dimensions to listen to and absorb. Points that really get me are: Brilliant professional and amateur actors, adult and teenage protagonists, Shakespeare and 2017, superb music, societal political correctness and basic gut emotion, human weakness and human strength, selfishness and selflessness. Youth and energy wins in the end…after some casualties on the way.

This has been absolutely fantastic, really enjoying it I see that half of one of my twees has already made it here to the comments (fine by me) but the full thing says “Thoroughly enjoying the ‘School Drama’ play on BBC Radio 4 at the moment. It’s part fun school play, part very very dark. Brilliant ” https://twitter.com/JoBrodie/status/733291726673215488